Ubuntu, I kept distro hopping but I still kept on coming back to it until I switched to Arch Linux.

I still use Ubuntu for my servers though.

Debian 2.2 on a consulting job in 2001. I'd used Unix mainframes in college, but other than that had only ever done work on DOS and Windows before then. Didn't think much of it at the time, though it was familiar and easy to work with. Certainly a far cry from the experience we all have with Linux today.

Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake :)

Mandrake like in 2003.

In highschool my tech teacher was handing out official Ubuntu discs . That's when I first heard of Linux . Was probably about 15 of

Mandrake ~7. Back them I had dial-up internet, but got the install CD from a magazine.

Iirc it was actually Lubuntu instead of Ubuntu, since I liked the idea of Ubuntu but found it's UI atrocious

Ubuntu, when I started studying IT after high school, my tutor was very insistent that we know about different weird things, and how tech in general worked, and because Ubuntu was so simple, that's where he started.

Ubuntu. I think it was around when Unity was starting off.

RedHat 5.2, purchased in a plastic-wrapped cardboard box from Best Buy. God I'm old 😭

Red Hat

I don't actively use Linux anymore but I think I first used puppy Linux in middle school. I was a strange kid and got a kick out of anything that could run off a flash drive.

Then I'd use like Ubuntu, lubuntu, and mint typically. I'm back to using windows because I only really use my computer for gaming and I honestly had a rare gift for bricking distros by installing something wrong.

The very first Linux? That would be DSL (Damn Small Linux).

I don't know whether it still exists but in 2003-ish, I was looking for something on-the-go and came across DSL.

I recently (2 years now) started using Linux as a daily driver again. Had to learn a lot of new things. This time someone on GamingOnLinux adviced me to start with Mint. But it wasn't for me. So it's been a great journey.

Redhat. I can't remember the version, but I found it at Fry's electronics in early 2000. Using Fedora now.

Manjaro, that is the distro in my families computer

Knoppix in 2006, arch today.

The first distro I used was Guadalinex, a distro developed by my Government (Andalusia, Spain) for education. I used it at school.

The first distro I installed was Ubuntu.

The first distro I daily drived was Fedora.

Mandrake in 2003, I was young and didn't know what I was doing...

Oh god it's been so long (20+ years). I only remember that whatever distro I installed had that great game preinstalled in which Tux slides down a mountain. Ah... Nice memories of easier times.

Slackware 0.97 (if I recall correctly) it must’ve been in 1993 I think

Manjaro GMOME was my first distro on hardware (had Ubuntu in VMs before)

Ubuntu 8.04, and I got it on one of those free discs they used to send out.

Fedora from a cd around 2006